Shogun Assassin

A Tribute to Janus Films

Shogun Assassin
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FRIDAY, MAY 12 – THURSDAY, MAY 18

General Admission: $10 | Loft Members: $8

Passes Not Accepted

The legendary midnight movie sensation that firmly embedded samurai mythology within American pop culture consciousness, this English-dubbed re-edit of the first two films in the classic Japanese chanbara series Lone Wolf and Cub is a giddily entertaining, mesmerizingly gory classic of East-meets-West grindhouse mayhem. Following the murder of his wife at the hands of an evil shogun, an avenging ronin (Tomisaburo Wakayama) roams the countryside with his young son—and the boy’s sword-shooting baby carriage—in tow, dispatching ninja assassins with steely resolve in operatically stylized flurries of hallucinatory violence. With its pulsing synth soundtrack and delirious action set pieces—kinetically edited whirlwinds of flashing blades, spurting blood, and severed limbs—Shogun Assassin proved an instant cult favorite that has bubbled its way up from the underground to the mainstream thanks to its influence on artists ranging from the Wu-Tang Clan to Quentin Tarantino. (Dir. by Kenji Misumi & Robert Houston, 1980, Japan/USA, in English, 90 mins., Rated R)

1 HR 25 MIN | NR

Released 1980
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